Download or read book Linguistic Attractors written by David L. Cooper and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several artificial neural network approaches. It uses general computation theory to: (1) demonstrate the capacity of Cantor-like fractal sets to perform as Turing Machines; (2) better distinguish between models that simply match outputs (emulation) and models that match both outputs and internal dynamics (simulation); and (3) relate language processing to essential computation steps executed in parallel. Measure and information theory highlight the key variables driving linguistic dynamics, while catastrophe and game theory help predict the possible topologies of language change.It introduces techniques to isolate and measure attractors, and to interpret their stability and relative content within a system. Important results include the capability to distinguish the sequence of related sound changes, and to make point-to-point comparisons of different texts using common metrics. Other techniques allow quantifiable ambiguity landscapes illustrating the forces that propel different languages in different directions.
Download or read book The Adaptive Value of Languages Non Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity written by Antonio Benítez-Burraco and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this eBook is to shed light on the non-linguistic causes of language diversity, and in particular, to explore the possibility that some aspects of the structure of languages may result from an adaptation to the natural and/or human-made environment. Traditionally, language diversity has been claimed to result from random, internally-motivated changes in language structure. However, ongoing research suggests instead that different factors that are external to language can promote language change and ultimately account for aspects of language diversity, specifically features of the social and physical environments. The contributions in this eBook discuss whether some aspects of languages are an adaptation to ecological, social, or even technological niches.
Download or read book Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics written by Vladimir Polyakov and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created as intercultural and interdisciplinary, conferences of the series “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics” have been successfully held since 1998. Over the years, CML has visited a number of countries, attracting more and more scientists from all over the world and thus broadening the scope of its topics. The conference has worked out its scientific character and now it has a constant core of participants; and the term “cognitive modeling” has become a popular topic of high profile conferences in linguistics and artificial intelligence, which affirms the CML’s direction of movement. The present volume gathers the most outstanding and interesting articles from participants of the XIIIth International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics”, whose studies will no doubt be of interest to both scientists who have tied their lives with linguistics, as well as to those people who treat it as a hobby. For information about CML conferences, please visit www.cml.msisa.ru
Download or read book Multilingualism and Electronic Language Management written by Walter Daelemans and published by Van Schaik Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Language written by George Melville Bolling and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society in v. 1-11, 1925-34. After 1934 they appear in Its Bulletin.
Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Metaphor in Educational Discourse written by Lynne Cameron and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2003-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports research into metaphor in use with school students. It is one of the first studies of metaphor to investigate the phenomenon in contextualised discourse, to adopt a socio-cultural approach to metaphor and to introduce the relatively new science of complex dynamic systems which offers new and potentially fruitful analogies for the analysis of educational discourse.
Download or read book A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History written by Manuel De Landa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and F lix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics.Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and F lix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as an arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In every case, what one sees is the self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress, and even more important, free of any deterministic source of its urban, institutional, and technological forms. Rather, the source of all concrete forms in the West's history are shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter-energy itself.
Download or read book Teaching Language written by Diane Larsen-Freeman and published by Teachersource. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewing grammar as something which is organic and evolving, this book provides an overview of grammar acquisition and language learning.
Download or read book A Connectionist Model of Instructed Learning written by David Charles Noelle and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics written by Wayles Browne and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume consists of 16 peer-reviewed, revised, and edited versions of papers presented a the twenty-fifth annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, held at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 13-15, 2016"--
Download or read book A Bibliography of Writings on the Acquisition of First Language written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism written by Philip Herdina and published by Multilingual Matters Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herdina and Jessner (both English linguistics, U. of Innsbruck) present a new model and a new set of concepts for interpreting the psycholinguistic phenomena of multilingual individuals. Coverage includes an overview of the main topics raised in multilingualism research, linguistic transfer, universal grammar, recent findings from third language acquisition research, the development and analysis of an alternative dynamic model of multilingualism (DMM), the question of holism and DMM as a holistic approach to multilingualism, theoretical issues of DMM, and future research possibilities and applications of the DMM model. For researchers in second language acquisition, bilingualism and multilingualism, cognitive linguistics, dynamic systems theory and research methodology, and language planners, administrators, and other professionals in multilingualism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Current Contents written by Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
